Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1885 — Page 3

THE LABOR PROBLEM.

The Great Lock-Oat in the Iron MilkOne Hundred of Them Shut Down. The Glass Manufacturers to Suspend Operations—An Army of SJxty*flTe Thousand Idlers. (Pittsburgh special to Chicago Times.] There are no new developments in the iron strike. Both sides remain firm and appear confident of ultimate success. One hundred iron mills have been closed in the district controlled by the Amalgamated Association. By this shut-down about 58,000 men are thrown out of employment and $116,000 a day taken out of circulation. In Pittsburgh and vicinity but eleven of thirtyfour mills are running; 4,330 men are at work in the iron mills, and 13,350 are idle. By this $26,700 per day will be taken out of circulation in this county. In the counties of Western Pennsylvania outside of Allegheny County, affected by the strike, there are 1,950 men idle, distributed by mills as follows: Armstrong County—The Apollo ironworks, 300; the Kittanning iron-works. 350; the Leechburg sheet-iron works, 200 — a total of .850. Beaver County—The Beaver Falls Bolling Mill Company, 200; Meyers &' Co.’s iron-works. 100—a total of 300.

Lawrence County—The iEtna iron-works, 200; the Shenango iron- works, 350 —a total of 550. Mercer County —P. L. Kimberly & Co.’s works, 600; Sharon Iron Company, 300; Stewart iron-workß, 200; Wheeler ironworks, 150 —a total of 1,350. By States the men affected are; In Western Pennsylvania, 19.630; in Ohio, 12,000; in Indiana, 6,000; in Illinois 14,000; in Michigan, 1,000; in Wisconsin, 3,000, and in West Virginia, 2,500 —a total of 58,130. In addition to this, thirty-four nail factories are idle; 3,819 machines have ceased to run; 3,802 men are thrown out employment in the nail factories alone, and sll,406 is daily taken out of circulation. Two factories have signed the scale, and are running. They are the Greencastle Iron and Nail Company, of Greencastle, Ind., running forty-five machines and employing fifty-four men, and the Falcon iron and nail works, at Niles, Ohio, running fortyfour machines and employing fifty-two men. The Bellaire nail-works, Bellaire, Ohio, with one-hundred and twenty-four machines and one-hundred and fifty men, has also signed the scale, but will not run, the firm refusing to sign the Amalgamated Association scale. Below is a table giving the names of the factories, the machines Tun, and the men employed: Machines. Men. Pittsburgh American Iron Works.... 63 76 Chess, Cook & Co 96 116 Spang, Chalfant & Co 19. 29 Shoenberger & Co 92 lit Zug <fc Co 69 71 Moorehead, Brother & Co 60 61 WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA. P. L. Kimberly <fc Co., Sharon 40 48 iEtna Iron Works (Lim.), Newcastle. 65 66 Sharon Iron Co., Sharon. 64 77 Shenango Iron Works,Newcastle.... 65 66 WEST VIRGINIA. Belmont, Wheeling 151 181 Benwood, Benwood 124 150 La Belle. Wheeling 122 146 Biverside, Wheeling 144 170 Standard, Clifton 126 151 Top Mills, Wheeling 130 169 KENTUCKY. Morton Iron Works, Ashland 126 151 TENNESSEE. Knoxville Iron Co., Knoxville 41 60 South Tredegar Iron Co., Chattanoqga 74 89 OHIO. Bellefontaine Nail Works, Bellaire. ..174 150 Falcon Iron and Nail Works, Niles... 44 52 Jefferson Iron Works, Steubenville.. 136 163 Junction Iron Co., Mingo 126 141 Kelly Nail and Iron Co., Ironton ... .100 120 Laughlin Nail Co., Martin's Ferry.. .114 135 Mahoning Iron Works, Youngstown. 50 60 Spaulding Iron Co., Brilliant 76 91 INDIANA. Cobb's Iron and Nail Co , Aurora.... 60 60 Greencastle Iron and Nail Co., Greencastle 45 ' 64 Terre Haute Iron and Nail Works... 144 170 ILLINOIS. Belleville Nail Co., Belleville 80 96 Calumet Iron and Steel 00., Cummings 153. 158 Centralia Iron and Nail Works, Centralia 50 60 Western Nail Co., Belleville .... 150 188 WISCONSIN. North Chicago Kolling-Mill Co., Bay View 100 120 This table gives only the number of men employed in the nail factories proper, and this total, added to the total above published, swells the number of workmen out of employment through the present iron and nail strike to nearly sixty-five thousand. The two strikes then take out of jirculation daily nearly $125,0U0.

THE LATE DAN MACE.

The Career of a Celebrated Horseman.

Dan Mace, the most celebrated jockey America has ever produced, whose death occurred in New York not long ago, was bom at Cambridge, Mass., in 1834. Among the most noted horses he handled in his early days were Kate Miller, Mary Taylor, Touch-Me-Not, Old Bones, a pacer; Duchess, Meddlesome, Tom Hyer, Dentist, Lady Westley, Albany Girl, Fashion, Little Romp, Tobey, Saltpetre, Soulouque, Providence Boy, North Star, Cyclops, Lady Boyle, Bay Star, Farmer Boy, Pilot, Chicago Jack, Tom Benton, Euclid, Lady Sherman, Lady Litchfield, Black Dave, a pacer, and a running horse called Gray Eagle. He drove Ethan Allen in 1858. Among the horses handled by Mace from 1863 to 1870 were Prince, John Morgan, Sorrel Dan, Pocahontas, Shark, Rhode Island, Kittie, Wink, Quaker, Feamaught, General Butler, Commodore Vanderbilt, Young Woeful, Billy Barr and Gray Mack. All of the horses acquitted themselves with credit under his able management.

Rascality in Naval Affairs.

The Navy, under Republican man* agement, was undoubtedly one of the most corrupt departments of the public service. A New York paper repeated some interesting testimony the other day that was recently given before the Paymaster Smith Court of Inquiry. The witness gave evidence to show an improper connection between the Paymaster General and certain favored contractors who are now forbidden to bid for supplies upon any of the present navy contracts. The first witness was George W. Simpson, of the firm of Simpson, Mclntyre & Co., Boston, the butter firm. They have a patent for packing butter to go long distances or to be kept a long time, and have supplied butter to the navy for years. This firm furnished 30,000 pounds in 1882 to the navy. The next year Smith was Paymaster General and the Boston butter people received no contracts. Simpson came to Washington to find out why, arriving just before the supplies were being bought for the Greely Relief Expedition. Simpson, continuing his evidence, said that the Paymaster General told him that the butter of the Boston firm was the best that had ever been put up for the navy. There was no objection made to it in any way, and Simpson rested in the full belief that his firm would get the contract, or at least an opportunity to put in a bid. The contract was soon after given to a favorite of the Paymaster General, and he found out why through a man by the name of Brown, who was the purchaser of large supplies for the department. He told the butter man that he could have secured for him the contract for 10,000 pounds of butter for the Greely expedition, but that he had turned the order over to George H. Goff, because Goff had claimed that he was not getting his share of the contracts. He said that Goff was very jealous of him. Brown then went on to say that if the Boston butter firm wanted any more contracts, to come to him and he would procure them for him. Mr. Simpson said: “I asked him what commission he would charge to secure the order. He asked me if the butter would stand five cents a pound above the regular price, and I replied, no. He then offered to procure the contract for 10 per cent, commission.”

Further testimony goes to show that the butter was bought at forty-five cents when the Boston firm would have furnished it at thirty-three cents, and the man Goff referred to in the foregoing pocketed the difference, and it was detected in the following manner: The contract for furnishing the butter for the Greely expedition, which was turned over to Goff, was filled by W. 1. Young, of South Market street, New York. Goff is a professional contractor, and had to go to a butter firm to get his supplies. Charles M. Young, who retired last year from the firm, but who is still working for it until his account with it is settled up, testified that he saw a check made out in New York payable to the order of Goff for SBOO. As 10,000 pounds of butter were furnished, this would make the difference between the contract price of forty-five cents and the market price, tbirtythree cents. It shows that this eight cents was put on to give Goff his commission. Simpson says that he reported to Paymaster General Smith the improper overtures made to him by Brown. Simpson said to Smith: “I stated that I had come to him frankly, and did not believe that a man of his reputation could afford to associate with such a man as I believed A, P. Brown to be, as any boy would have had better judgment than to divulge secrets to a stranger, as Mr. Brown did to me. He thanked me for coming to him, and stated with an oath, that Mr. Brown was a fool, and in this statement I agreed with him.” Mr. Simpson also stated in this conversation that he did not understand why the navy should purchase butter at forty-five cents a pound when he could have furnished the butter of a much better grade at thirty-three cents. Smith replied to this that he was very busy at the time, and gave the order to Mr. Goff, without kuowing that other people had had a chance to make a bid.

Thus the money used to go under Republican administrations. That SBOO was not missed the other day when the public money was counted, simply because it was in Goff’s pocket.—lndianapolis Sentinel.

President Cleveland, according to all reports, seems to have some of Mr. Lincoln’s readiness of reply and aptness of retort when he wishes to state his own side of the case without offending his visitors. His answer to the man who opposed a certain appointee because his backer bet thousands of dollars on Blaine—“ Well, he lost his money, didn’t he?”—is already public property. Even more convincing was his remark to Senator Vest, who came to tell him that he should certainly vote against the confirmation of Mr. Pearson as Postmaster of New York. “Let’s look at this a moment,” was Mr. Cleveland’s reply. And then he went on to say that if he had a Missouri appointment to make he would consult Senator Vest and other Missouri Democrats. “But at New York,” he said, “I’m at home. I know something about that State. I observed and studied its politics long before its politics observed and studied me, and since I came into public life I may be presumed to have watched its affairs a little. If I should conclude in a single instance to do differently from what you think I ought to do—with your larger knowledge of the State—you ought to bear with me a little. Don’t you think so yourself?” “Mr. President,” shouted Vest, “I quit. Send in any New-Yorker you please, and I’ll vote for him right off,”

THE WAR IN THE NORTHWEST.

A Detachment of the Canadian Force; Have a Hot Fight with Big Bear’s Forces. Gen. Middleton Announce His Purpose to Fursue tho Red Chieftain Until He Catches Him. Winnipeg dispatches give particulars of an engagement between the Indian Chief Big Bear and Capt. Steele's mounted force of Canadians: Capt. Steele and his force, seventy in number, were scouting south of Fort Pitt, as it was reported that Big Bear had taken the trail for Sounding Lake. Middleton has given Capt. Steele instructions to watch closely and cut off the retreat of the Indians south if they attempted to go that way, while he and Strange with their forces would watch the north. Steele’s force suddenly came upon Big Bear’s Indians at Two Lakes, fifty miles south of Fort Pitt. The Indians were striking camp when Steele discovered them. Their force seemed to number between 250 and 300. So suddenly had the scouts come upon the redskins, and so near were they to the latter before seeing them, that there was no chance of retreat, so Steele at once ordered a charge. His men were well mounted and aimed, and as they galloped forward they were met by a shower of bullets, which checked them. Still they rode on, however, seemingly determined not to be driven back,- but when another volley was fired at them, and when Steele perceived that the Indians outnumbered his forces, he ordered the men to fall back. It was well he did so, for at that moment the Indians were joined by re-enforcements who poured out of the bluffs in the rear. They were well armed, and when they 6aw the scouts riding off fired a heavy volley. Steele was. however, determined not to be beaten so easily, so he hastily laid plans for another attack upon the Indians. His force was quickly divided. One-half started north to mako a detour so as to close in on the Indians. The other half went a short distance east, and at a given signal the two forces closed in upon the Indians from the rear, taking them completely by surprise. So quickly was the movement planned, and so quickly was it executed, that before the redskins were aware of it the scouts were within fifty yards of their rear and pouring their bullets into the camp, doing considerable havoc. The Indians were so much alarmed that they ran pell-mell down the ravine and across a creek four feet deep. Many of them left their firearms behind, and most of the camp outfit was also abandoned. The Indians took refuge in a bush on the other side of the creek, from which they kept up a desultory fire upon the scouts, who for some time debated the feasibility of following them over the creek. As the Indians did not appear to have any prisoners with them, and as there was little hope of accomplishing anything by pursuit and attack, Capt. Steele decided to retreat. Before going away he thought it well to inquire after the condition of the prisoners, so he sent an interpreter named McKee to the bank of the creek with a flag of truce.

As McKee stepped forward, several bullets whizzed past hiru, but he went on, and when he reached the bank firing ceased. He then called out in Indian: v “Is Big Bear there?” The answer came from Big Bear himself: “Yes.” McKee said: “If you will deliver our people, we will cease firing on you.” Big Bear in a loud voice replied: “We intend to clear yon out yet; so beware. ” Another bullet which whizzed dangerously near McKee’s head after the last announcement apprised him that further parley would be useless, so he beat a hasty retreat: Capt. Steele’s loss was as follows: Sergt. Maj, Fury, shot in the breast, fatal. William West, scout, shot through the leg. J. Fisk, shot in the arm. The Indian loss was considerable, several bodies being found this side of the ravine. Middleton has announced that he will pursue Big Bear until he catches him. Portrait of Gen. Middleton. •

We present herewith a portrait of Gen. Francis Middleton, the commander-in-chief of the forces operating against the Indians and half-breeds in the British Northwest Territory.

Sad Ending of a Pleasure Trip.

[Pittsburgh special. 1 Mr. and Mrs. George Dawless and Mr. and Mrs. John St. Clair started for a pleas* ure ride in a skiff, on the river. The little party had not proceeded far from the suspension bridge when the boat capsized, throwing them into the river. Mr. and Mrs. St. Clair, who were not far from the shore, were quickly rescued, but before succor could reach the other unfortunate couple they had sunk beneath the water to rise no more.

The Revue Bibliographique reports that in Paraguay a tribe of Indians with tails has been discovered. A Guaycuyos child of eight years was captured with a tail a . foot long.

LOADED WITH LEAD.

An lowa Jail Stormed by a Mob and Two Prisoners Riddled with Bullets. Frantic Cries of the Doomed Mon for Help—Their Careers of Lawlessness. “Help! help! Murder! murder! For Heaven's sake, savo us!” were the cries that startled the quiet people of E'.dora lowa, at 1:30 o’clock in the morning. “People living near the disturbance,” says an eye-witness of the scenes that fol owed, “hastened from their beds and followed the direction of the sound. As soon as they reached the public square, all doubts as to the cause of the unusual commotion were removed.

“A masked mob had gathered around the jail, and were battering down the doors for the purpose of securing Fin and Manse Kainsburger, the outlaws who were confined for the attempted murder of Drs. Underwood and Biedenour, on the evening of June 2. The wild shrieks of the doomed prisoners were heart-rending. They knew too well the meaning of the gathering of earnest and determined men without, and the first blow on the door sounded their death-knell. As the prospect of death loomed up before them, and they realized that their miserable, crime-stained lives were to pay the penalty for years of lawlessness, they gave expression to their terror in despairing cries for help. The mob were not long in gaining admittance to the jail, but it took them fifteen minutes to get into the cell where the prisoners were confined, n sledge being used to open the cell door. AVbeu the mob commenced on this door, the prisoners backed themselves ngiinst it and made a desperate effort to hold out against the avengers. Not until Manse was shot in the cell from outside were the furious assailants able to get inside. “When the hammering was going on, the prisoners, in their frenzy, called upon the Sheriff, the Marshal, and the people of Eldora for protection. Their cries of murder and for help could be heard a long distance. Then they called upon George Barber, of Steamboat Rock, who was confined in another cell for liquor-selling, to tell their families that they died like dogs and no one to help them. “Fin, after the door was broken in, made a dash for liberty, but was captured outside of the jail and held up and shot. The work was so quickly accomplished that not many of the citizens realized what was being done until it was all over. The mob had guards stationed at all the avenues,, leading to the jail, and allowed no one t(/approach. “As soon as the work was completed, the party, numbering perhaps seventy-five men, departed quietly. Night-Watch Aldrich and the editor of the Herald were the first to arrive at the scene of the tragedy, and the sight that met their gaze was horrible. Lying face downward in the street about fifteen feet from the jail was the lifeless body of Manse Rainsbarger, any lying partly on the sidewalk and partly on the ground upon his back lay the body of his brother Fin. Both bodies were literally riddled with bullets. The bodies were dressed just as they had retired for the night, their pants and shirts being their only clothing, except that Manse had his stockings on. Their life blood flowed from the wounds and covered them.

“Lying near the bodies was the trunk of a hickory tree about nine inches in diameter and fifteen feet in length. The limbs had been trimmed up to within a few inches of the trunk, leaving them long enough to be firmly grasped by the hands. This was the battering ram used to gain admission to the jail, and in the hands of strong and determined men required only a few moments to break down the harriers that stood between them and the objects of their vengeance. “The mob appeared in town about 1 o’clock, and their conveyances consisted of nine wagons, and several of the party came on horseback. A number of people heard them come in, and wondered what it meant, but as they made little noise in their preparations they attracted scarcely any attention. The officers having the prisoners in charge apprehended no danger for their safety. Some threats bad been made, but no violent spirit had been openly manifested.

“The Eainsbarger gang had so long carried on their lawless operations that the people had settled down into an apparent lethargy, hoping that ihe law would eventually punish them for their many crimes. They doubtless would never have been molested, and the law would have been allowed to take its course in regard to their past offenses, had they not aroused the people to fury by the last outrage of which they were guilty. On the evening of the 3d of June, as Dr. Underwood, Dr. Caldwell, and Dr. G. H. Biedenonr were passing; through a heavy strip of timber eight miles north of Eldora, three masked men appeared at the roadside and commenced shooting at them with navy revolvers at short range. The top buggy in which they were riding was riddled with bullets, and the escape of its occupants is wonderful, but they were uninjured save a few scratches. Dr. Bieaenour, with remarkable coolness, jumped out and epened fire on the attacking party with good effect, wounding one of them and driving them to the brush. Dr. Underwood held the inquest over the body of Enoch Johnson, who was found dead near Gifford last November, and declared Johnson had been murdered, and has done all he can to bring the murderers to justice. Both Underwood and Biedenour testified against the Rainsbargers, who were tried some time ago for the murder of Johnson. Since then they have been threatened and warned to leave the State by members of the Bainsbarger gang. ”

SPLINTERS.

New York is to have a floating skatingrink. Ex-Gov. Horatio Seymour, of New York, is 75 years old. The present value of cattle in Dakota is estimated at $8,000,000. A railway is projected between Washington and Mount Vernon. New Mexico spent $45,000 for ehurches and $6,485,000 for liquor last year. The inventor of barbs on fence wire receives a royalty of $120,000 a year.

VICTOR HUGO’S FUNERAL.

A Round Millio n of Piersons Estimated to Have Witnessed the Great Cortege. Six Eloquent Orations Delivered at the Tomb by Illustrious Sons of the Republic. [Condensed from the eable dispatches. 1 Hundreds of thousands of people were abroad in Paris at daybreak,, already crowding th« streets and boulevards through which the great procession was to move that r.ccom: anted th( lemains of Victor Hugo to their last restingplace in the Pantheom Owing to the crowded condition of the hotels thousands were compelled to biveuao In the open sir all night. Around the Arc- de Triomphe the spaoe was fll'ed with the chief officers of the state, the members of the Diplomatic Corps, Senators, and Deputies. From all directions came deputation! with draped banners and bearing flowers and gigantic wreaths, and all moved In the direction of the Aro de Triomphe, the Mecca ol Franoe to-day. Neves did Paris present such a scene. The funeral procession started punctually ai noon. Many vehicles, heaped up with the offerings of the people of France, followed the hearse in the procession. The buildings were black with peoule, as was, indeed, every point from which might be had a view of the unparalleled spectacle. All in the procession seemed to appreciate that France was doing honor to her most illustrious poet. All were quiet, and all observed • most becoming demeanor. Tho pressure of ths packed masses of people was frightful to contemplate, and many of those who were “In th« packs" were seriously crushed. Six orations were delivered under the Aro d« Triomphe, in the presence of nearly all th< illustrious men of France. M. Leroyer, President of the Senate, said Victor Hugo constantly pursued the highei Ideal of justice and humanity, and thus exercised an immense influence over the moral feeling of France. M. Flequei said that the ceremony to-day wat not a funeral; It was an apotheosis. He hailed Vlotor Hugo as the Immortal apostle who bequeathed to humanity that gospel which could lead the people to the definitive conquest ot liberality and equality. FToquet's oration touched the hearts of his hearers, and wai greatly applauded. M. Augler, a member of the academy, elaborated tho fact made evident to-day: “To tht sovereign poet France renders sovereign honors.” M. Goelet, President of the Chamber of Deputies, declared that Victor Hugo will remain th« highest personification of the nineteenth century. the history of whloh, in its contradictions, doubts, Ideas, and i spiratlons, was best reflected in his works. Tho character of Victor Huge was profoundly human, and represented th< sp rit of toleration and of peace. The Binging of revolutionary and patriotic songs by bands of men gathered beyond th« reach of the voices ot the orators Interrupted some of the unity of the eulogies, but beyond tills there was nothing to mar the beauty or detract from the impressiveness of the spectacle. • Tho funeral coremonies were completed, and the march of the procession ended without anything happening that might bo called of a disorderly character. The police arrested several bearers of red flags, which were unturled at the starting points ol headquarters of the several revolutionary societies. Metz, Btrasbourg, and all the fortress town* in the annexed provinces were well represented. Every point of view was crowded with men, women, and children. The tops of five-story houses and even tho chimneys wero ocoupled by sight-seers. Georges Hugo walked alone behind the bier. During the procession a vast scaffolding on the Place Cluny collapsed. Many persons were injured, but none killed. The fall caused a great panic and confusion, hut the prooesslon was soon refotmed. Another platform fell on the liue Royalo. It Is estimated that tho procession numbered 1,000,000 persons. Not a single priest was seen in the line. “Letttla Ucrum." Among the many beautful things which Vlotor Hugo has written of children is a stanza in his poem, “Letitia Iterum,” which may be thus approached in translation: “Children, through your eyes all sparkling 1 gaze into heaven's blue; Your smillngs are its sunbeams; Your tears, Its morning dew.” In English. Vlotor Hugo was once asked If he could write poetry in English, and he answered, “Yes, sir.” Here is a specimen: Quand je me sens du spleen, J entre dans un Inn, Et je bois du gin, God save the Queen.

MEN OF NOTE.

Isaac VV. England, Late Publisher of tho New York Sun.

Isaac W. England, for many years the publisher of the New York Sun, who died m that city not long ago, was bom in 1832, at Bath, England. When a boy he learned the printer’s trade. In 1847 he came with his ]>arents to America. Some years latex he became city editor of the Tribune. In 1864 he took a position in the Custom House under Simeon Draper, and latex went as a Government agent to Charleston. S. C. Mr. Dana started the Chicago Republican, now the Inter Ocean, and secured Mr. England’s services on that journal. He was afterward editor of the Jersey City Journal, and when Mr. Dana secured the Sun he was managing editor for a year. In 1868 Mr. England entered the publication office and became the publisher of the paper. After Frank Leslie’s death he took charge of the Leslie publications, and, although the property was $250,000 in debt, in two years he put the business of the establishment on a paying basis.

ALL SORTS.

Tramps cost Solano, CaL, $20,000 the past year. Boys as pages are now popular features at Eastern weddings. A broom brigade in South Dakota lately saved a town from destruction from prairie fire.